A suspected outbreak of Ebola in West Africa has killed at least 78 people and infected 122 more. The vast majority of the cases are in Guinea, though two deaths have been reported in Sierra Leone and one in Liberia.

Jake Rush is a talented young lawyer who's trying to unseat an ornery old tea party congressman in Gainesville, Florida, this year. Chazz Darling is a dark vampiric gamer with a penchant for rape fantasies. Also, Jake Rush is Chazz Darling. Chazz Darling is the new Carlos Danger.

Utah became the latest state to put an anti-"revenge porn" law on its books yesterday. Its governor signed HB 71, a law "regarding distributing intimate images of a person without that person's permission." A first offense under the law will be a misdemeanor; subsequent violations will be punished as felonies.

On Tuesday, Malaysian authorities released the complete transcript of the conversation between Flight 370's pilots and air traffic controllers, just one day after they announced that the final words from the plane's cockpit were "Good night Malaysian three seven zero." The full transcript, via the Associated Press, is below.

Last month, fast food workers across America filed several class action lawsuits alleging illegal wage theft by their employers. If you think that's a far-fetched problem, take a look at these new poll results.

On a flight from Brisbane back to Sydney, the Australian cast of The Lion King celebrated their season launch with a Kanye-West-like breach of airplane etiquette: They sang "Circle of Life" in its entirety toward the tail-end of the boarding process.

British investment banker and former Financial Times reporter Andrew Balls says he supplemented his FT salary by...writing speeches for the vice chairman of Citigroup. Cool.

The story goes like this: In 1961, the 23-year-old Michael Rockefeller (son of Nelson), was in the Asmat region of New Guinea, collecting local relics for his father's Museum of Primitive Art. His boat overturned a few miles from shore and he decided to swim back. After doing so for some 20 hours, he was greeted by locals on the shore, who speared and then ate him.

A dog, Gawker's newest columnist, returns to his personal Kinja blog, dog.gawker.com, with a meditation on laughter and life. Please enjoy.

Missouri University of Science and Technology's website always looks like this.

The National Zoo's 7-month-old panda cub, Bao Bao, took her first steps outside into her mother's enclosure Tuesday. The baby panda quickly fell in love with the outdoors, tasting some bamboo and trying to climb a tree.

Last year, when it was announced that International Business Times had bought the shrinking Newsweek brand, some media organizations started asking questions about IBT's connection to a shady Korean-born Christian minister. Now we have some new, weird info on that connection.

Jurassic Park was the first movie to truly blur the line between CGI and reality, combining Industrial Light and Magic's cutting-edge computer effects with dinosaurs designed by practical effects legend Stan Winston. But screw all that—some guys on YouTube did it with toys and cardboard.

Wondering how to deal with nosy neighbors, obnoxious airplane passengers, and people with no boundaries? What do you do if you accidentally poop during sex? How to make it clear to someone you don't like them?

A teenage girl is accused of stabbing her best friend 65 times. Police believe she wanted revenge after the other girl uploaded naked photos the two had taken together to Facebook.

Michael Lewis's new book Flash Boys, about the inherent unfairness of high speed trading, is the talk of Wall Street and the financial media. The backlash to the book is a familiar refrain: "Everyone already knows that." Well, that's the point, isn't it?

Abdulrahman Alharbi, one of the victims from the Boston Marathon bombings, has filed a defamation lawsuit against Glenn Beck. Shortly after the bombing, Beck accused Alharbi, a Saudi Arabian college student, of being the "money man" behind the attack.

In his first show since Twitter activists called for his cancellation, Stephen Colbert devoted an entire segment to the #cancelcolbert hashtag that blew up last week. The controversy was ignited by an out-of-context tweet from the Colbert Report Twitter account, which isn't controlled by Colbert himself.

Frank Bruni, a bad newspaper columnist, has an affinity for college that rivals Tom Friedman's affinity for cab drivers.

A search and rescue worker walks through the site of the deadly March 22 mudslide in Oso, Washington. The official death toll from the disaster now stands at 24, with another 22 still missing. Image via Ted S. Warren/AP.